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' APPLIUATIO FILED JUNE 15,1904.

' ent invention are the simpliiication of the conv v UNITED STATES Patented-January 31, 1 905.

JOHN FEITH, OF NEWF YORK,.N. Y.

GARMNT-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 781,411, dated January 31,1905.

Application filed Tune 15, 1904. Serial No. 212,646.,

To if/ZZl whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN FnrrH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Greater New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

The subject of the present invention is a combined garment and hat hanger, more particularly of the type wherein a'rigid hook is in coactive relation'with a fixed and a movable clamping-arm, the latter adapted to be engaged by a key-controlled lock, so that a garment-loop can be engagedwith the hook and the adjacent ends of the arms be caused to clamp the brim ofa hat, so as retain both the same and the garment against unauthorized removal. Y

Prominent objects connected with the presstruction and the arrangement wherebyv the closing movment of the movable jaw will not only serve to retain the garment against undesirable removal, but will at thesame time positively clamp a hat to correspondinglyl hold the same.

There are other important features connected with the invention, which, besides those alluded to, are clearly set forth in the subsequent detailed description and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

` Figure 1 is aside view of agarment and hat hanger embodying 'one form ofmyinvention, full lines illustrating the relative positions of the arms when in a clamped position, dotted lines partially indicating the open position of the same. Fig. 2 is a detail plan View, on an enlarged scale, disclosing the rigid hook with a portion thereof broken away to show a form of locking mechanism. Fig. 3 is a sectional detail View through the liXed and movable arms, the plane of section being that indicated by vthe broken line 3 3, Fig. 1.

Similar reference characters are employed to designate corresponding parts in the several figures ofthe drawings wherein they occur. v j

Referring now more particularly' to Fig. 1,

vA applies to a hook which when in position portion of. this hook is'enlarged and hollowed to form the housing of a spring snap-lock, a simple form ofwhich latter involves a rectangular opening in the top of the housing,

dotted lines, Fig. 2, and a hook-ended latch B, having a beveled face B2, the shank of which r'evolubly bears in a collar bs. An angularly-dis'posed extension 6 of this shank is designed to coact with a swinging tumbler b2, pivoted at 57 and operable byH-a key B', insertible through the key-opening b3, the latch being normally retained in the position indicated .by Jfull lines, Fig. 2, and dotted lines, Fig. 1, through the medium of a spring If. As will be' readily seen, if the key be inserted and turned it will engage and turn the tumbler on its pivot, causing the tumbler by its engagement with the latch to revolve said latch against the action of the spring, and

therebydisengage its hooked end from the y shoulder oni the end of the movable arm D, thus releasing'said arm andy allowing it to be raised, and.' that when the movable arm is loweredA the shouldered end will engage and slide alongy the beveled face B2 of the latch locked or may be locked by revolving the hooked end of the latch out of the path of movement of.thev movable arm by means of key and the tumbler and after the arm has and spring back of the hook and become been lowered into position releasing pressure a pivotal connection being established for the part d with the recessed position of the-arm 'O by means of a rivet d. The upper part Z2 IOO of the arm D, or that portion which is above the rivet, is curved approximate with the corresponding part of the arm C, said upper part of the arm D also terminating in a rounded head (Z3, eorrelative with the head c, about as illustrated in Fig. 1. The arm D also embodies a lower forwardly-extending member di, having at its lower end a recessed or shouldered extremity (Z5, which when the member is depressed, as indicated in Fig. l, is adapted to pass through the top otl the lockhousing and become automatically engaged by the latch.

From the description thus far it will be readily comprehended that it' previous to the movement of the arm D, as just intimated, the loop of a garment is slipped in engagement with the hook A by subsequently positioning a hat the arm D can bc so movedv that upon engagement of the member d* the garment will be confined upon said hook against undesirable removal, and coincidently the brim of the hat will be positively clamped between the heads c and Z3 of the lixed and movable arms, both otl which conditions are represented by dotted lines in Fig. l. To release the garment and hat, the proper person inserts the key and unlocks the catch, whereupon the movable jaw can be swung to the position indicated in dotted lines in said Fig. l.

The novel garment and hat holder is comparatively simple and inexpensive. It is, moreover, extremely useful.

I do not desire to be understood as limiting myseli'to the precise details and arrangements of parts shown and described, but reserve the right to all modilications within the scope of my invention.

Having now described my invention, what l claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a combined garment and hat hanger, the combination with a rigid hook containing key-released locking mechanism and having an upper opening, of a iixed arm and a movable arm pivotally connected to said fixed arm and having a lower shouldered member, the shouldered portion of which is adapted to pass through the said opening and be engaged by the locking mechanism, said fixed and movable arms provided with hat-clamping parts.

2. 1n a combined garment and hat hanger, the combination with a rigid hook containing key-released locking mechanism and having an upper opening, of-a iixed arm and a movable arm-pivotally connected to said fixed arm, both of said lixed and movable arms being above the hook and having forward clampingheads, said movable arm having` a lower shouldered member, the shouldered portion of which is adapted to pass through the said opening and be engaged by the locking mechanism.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 6th day of May, A. D. 1904.

JOHN FEITH.

Titnessesz CHAS. L. WOLF, NVILLIAn PAx'roN. 

